Patient Education
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010The ASC industry supports a bill that would require hospitals and ASCs to publicly disclose what they charge for services, as well as quality data on those services.
U.S. Psyche Bedevils Health Effort
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I hate the health-care system — but don’t you dare mess with it.
That’s a pretty apt summary of the American mind-set about health care — and not just now, but for decades. Something about health care calls forth from the national psyche a deep, almost inexplicable schizophrenia, as the latest, delayed effort to…
Seeking a Safer Surgery
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009A 42-year-old woman dies shortly after undergoing five cosmetic procedures in a New York plastic surgeon’s office. A 53-year-old Tucson patient having liposuction and surgery to tighten her jaw line stops breathing. A 21-year-old man has a fatal reaction to anesthesia while undergoing minor genital surgery…
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Finding a Way to Ask Doctors Tough Questions
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Waiting to see his dermatologist about a skin rash, John Barnett heard the doctor sneeze loudly before he came into the exam room. The Seattle-area retiree says it took all his courage to ask, “Are you going to wash your hands before you examine me?”…
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In Just a Flash, Simple Surgery Can Turn Deadly
Monday, March 2nd, 2009An electrical spark from a surgical tool sets off a fire in the breathing tube of a young tonsillectomy patient…..
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RID (Reduce Infection Deaths)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008RID is a not-for-profit educational campaign focused on correcting the staggering number of hospital infections that kills more people each year in the U.S. than AIDS, breast cancer, and auto accidents combined.
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Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A Positive Trend in Health Care
Friday, July 18th, 2008Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are health care facilities which offer patients the opportunity to have selected surgical and procedural services performed outside the hospital setting. Since their inception more than three decades ago, ASCs have demonstrated an exceptional ability to improve quality and customer service while simultaneously reducing costs. At a time when most developments…
Across USA, Anxiety Over Access to Patient Records
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Robert Davis
USA Today
In 2001, Sandee Pingatore was determined to find out why her son, Troy, 29, had died in a California hospital while being treated for a drug overdose just hours after she had been told he was stable. But Pingatore was unable to get the hospital to produce a key medical…
Communication Now Part of the Cure
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007USA Today
Erin Donaghue
Retired Boston physician Jonathan Fine became a patient advocate in 2004 when he realized communication between doctor and patient is often the first casualty of a major illness.
Miscommunication puts patients at greater risk of becoming victims of preventable medical errors, according to a report this year by…
How to Size Up Your Hospital
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007The Wall Street Journal
Theo Francis
Amid a broad push to bring more accountability to the U.S. health-care system, consumers have access to a growing range of data on hospital quality.
Just a few years ago, only a handful of resources offered such data — some of it too broad to apply to…
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